Portasol Dehorner III Standard Dehorner III Standard Orange And Grey, Medium

Love this dehorner for my Nigerian Dwarf goats. First, you can use it anywhere instead of being tied to electrical outlets, because it runs on butane. Go to any place that sells cigarettes and they will have butane canisters for sale, for refilling lighters. Note: I stop and refill after three kids just to make sure it doesn’t run out in the middle of one. The tip has a very narrow edge so it goes through very quickly instead of needing to leave on longer and leaving a wide burn ring like, for example, the Rhinehart. As my goat mentor taught, I heat the tool up and make sure it’s burning a good ring by testing on a piece of wood. Restrain the kid and clip hair away around the horn buds. Switch butane off. Burn first bud rocking tool around the circle for four seconds. Repeat for second bud. Go back to first bud and do it again if/where needed to go all the way through to white (bone). Pop that whole horn cap off. Repeat on second bud. If it’s a buck kid, you have to move tool down and inward and repeat to make a figure 8 to catch all the horn base. Cauterize any bleeding and spray with Blu-Kote. Switch butane back on to reheat for next kid.

Can dehorn about 5 calves per fill. Just uses butane lighter fluid available in hardware stores

nice easy to use FLAMELESS device! Promptly put it to use the day after I bought it. it was about 19 degrees F, in the barn In the hour I used it I only refilled it one time. It heated up fast, stayed hot, and worked perfect, really excited about this tool esp. that there is no cord to fight with

What a piece of junk. It takes over a 1/2hr to kind of heat up, then it doesn’t stay hot enough to do a good job

Ordered this for my wife to use on her Nubian goats. She has previously been using an electric dehorning iron that gave out after a few years. I thought this one may be better since it's not tied to a cord or a propane tank and she tells me it heats up very fast and works flawlessly.